Effect of Carbon-Doped Cu (Ni) Alloy Film for Barrierless Copper Interconnect

L Wang, X Guo, S Dong, Y Qiao, J Chen, Z Yan, R Shu… - Coatings, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, the barrier properties and diffusion behavior of carbon-doped Cu (Ni) alloy film
were investigated. The films were fabricated using magnetron sputtering on a barrierless …

[HTML][HTML] Electromigration in Cu–Cu joints: Measurement of activation energy and polarity effect

SC Yang, YT Yang, C Chen - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electromigration (EM) has been a pivotal reliability challenge for interconnects, but there are
only few studies on EM in Cu–Cu joints. In this work, accelerated EM tests for the Cu–Cu …

Molybdenum Thin Film Formation from Molybdenum Nitride Deposited by Plasma-enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition with Hydrogen-permeable Mechanical Capping …

JH Park, YW Kim, MH Kim, JS Kim… - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, we developed a Mo metal thin film deposition process consisting of two steps:
Mo2N thin film deposition using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition, followed by …

Numerical evaluation of grain boundary electron scattering in molybdenum thin films: A critical analysis for advanced interconnects

SH Joo, D Choi - Vacuum, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a methodology for numerically evaluating grain boundary scattering in
polycrystalline molybdenum (Mo) thin films. Two types of Mo films (an epitaxially grown …

Plasma atomic layer etching of ruthenium with surface fluorination and ion bombardment

Y Kim, H Kang, H Ha, M Choi, M Jeon… - Plasma Processes …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The plasma atomic layer etching (ALE) process for Ru was developed with surface
fluorination and ion bombardment. We employed two methods for surface fluorination:(i) …

Training dependency of neural network interatomic potential for molecular dynamics simulation of Ru-Si-O mixed system

S Hashimoto, T Watanabe - Japanese journal of applied physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated the training dependency of neural network interatomic potentials for
molecular dynamics simulation of a Ru–Si–O mixed system. Our neural network interatomic …

Electromigration Reliability of Buried Power Rails in Vertically Stacked Devices

L Filipovic, RL de Orio - 2023 IEEE International Integrated …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We apply a compact model for electromigration (EM) to study the build-up of vacancy-
induced stress in a buried power rail (BPR) for vertically stacked complementary field-effect …